Dan Snyder has made no bones about the fact that he wants his team to keep being called the Redskins. It’s the name he grew up rooting for. He obviously has an emotional attachment to that tradition. That attitude has been reflected in the way the team has taken great pains to brush off the mounting pressure to change its name. The team’s official web site even recently made a defensive joke that those who want the name changed are probably just sneaky mischievous Cowboys fans.

“We’ll never change the name,” he said in an interview with USA Today. “It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”

Uh oh, someone’s bringing out the big boy capital letters.

Of course, now that Snyder had made this proclamation, he’ll either look extremely foolish for having said this when he eventually has to cave or he’ll stubbornly resist way too long just because he has to stick to his guns. Either way, sowing the seeds for Danny humiliation to come.

What makes a name change inevitable? The fact that your small circle of journalist cause-heads think it should be changed? It won’t be changed for the simple fact that there is no reason outside of liberal guilt to change it. Natives by and large aren’t offended. Just ask them or visit an actual reserve. The most popular sports items worn are Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins. For a group that are supposed to be offended at such images and names they have a strange way of showing it.

It isn’t inevitable, but it is probably likely. Most people weren’t offended by the name “Bullets”, but that was changed. Most people weren’t offended by St. John’s and Marquette’s mascots, but they were changed. All it takes is a vocal minority and bad publicity. Hell, Augusta National has several black members and female members, and I thought that would never happen.

For what it’s worth, I personally DOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNTTTT CAAAAAARRREEE.

Not sure I agree with your police work on the assertion that “Natives by and large aren’t offended”. It may not be the most important issue of public concern amongst Natives, but the term ‘redskin’ is definitely a slur. I’d suggest that you visit, say, the Gathering of Nations next year and address the first person you see by that term, but I wouldn’t wish the results of that anyone.

Yeah, I do. Living beside one gives one perspective. Unlike Ape and the Deadspin crew who only see Indians on tv. Face it, you and your ilk are the only ones who care about this name because it gives you a chance to be holier than thou and puff up your PC cred so your liberal buddies will know you ‘feel’ for the poor oppressed minority. Despite the minority not giving two fucks one way or the other. Ape probably sees this as a way back into the Post. If he cares enough they might take him back.

If you paid attention you’d know that the government term is “reservation”, which my Navajo Nation and his friends derisively call the hell hole “The Rez”. But you are right; most Native Americans have bigger problems than an NFL team’s name from Washington. Some I’ve talked to about it almost want them to keep it for ironic and cynical reasons. It’s just a racist name and the proper thing to do would be to change it, but it is not a national emergency.

Snyder’s ethnicity was never denigrated. There was nothing anti-Jewish in the article that he sued about AT ALL, and he later admitted (foolishly) that he had never even read it.
Please don’t give that jackass’ argument weight by repeating it.